Road traffic accidents are a very rampant issue causing injury, loss of lives and property worldwide. In this research, a system for determining the severity of motorcycle accidents in Lokoja Metropolis of Central Nigeria was developed. The research considered different areas that are highly prone to accidents in Lokoja. Although accidents cannot be totally avoided, through scientific analysis, their frequency and severity can be reduced. The methodology used in this research is Knowledge Discovery in Databases with the Decision Tree Algorithm as the soft computing technique used for analysis. Python programming language was used for the implementation. The dataset used was gotten from the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Lokoja. After the training and testing of the dataset, we achieved an accuracy of 90.5%. The motorcycle accident severity prediction system developed could serve as a tool that can be used to cub the enormous challenges faced by FRSC in curtailing motorcycle accident.
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Terungwa Simon Yange, Oluoha Onyekwere, Malik Adeiza Rufai, Charity Ojochogwu Egbunu, Onyinyechukwu Rehoboth Ogboli. (2020). Determination of the Severity of Motorcycle and Tricycle Accidents in Nigeria. Advances in Applied Sciences, 5(2), 41-48. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.aas.20200502.14
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abstract = {Road traffic accidents are a very rampant issue causing injury, loss of lives and property worldwide. In this research, a system for determining the severity of motorcycle accidents in Lokoja Metropolis of Central Nigeria was developed. The research considered different areas that are highly prone to accidents in Lokoja. Although accidents cannot be totally avoided, through scientific analysis, their frequency and severity can be reduced. The methodology used in this research is Knowledge Discovery in Databases with the Decision Tree Algorithm as the soft computing technique used for analysis. Python programming language was used for the implementation. The dataset used was gotten from the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Lokoja. After the training and testing of the dataset, we achieved an accuracy of 90.5%. The motorcycle accident severity prediction system developed could serve as a tool that can be used to cub the enormous challenges faced by FRSC in curtailing motorcycle accident.},
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